Canelo Álvarez became unbeatable for Golovkin: he still won on cards and kept all four titles

Saúl Canelo Álvarez completed the trilogy against Gennady Golovkin with a new victory, again through the cards. In Las Vegas the Mexican kept the four world supermedium titles he had up for grabs, in a race below expectations, despite the good passes presented in the last rounds.

“I said to (Golovkin) thank you, because we have given people three great fights that will go down in history. I have been through very difficult times in my life and we have to move on. Defeats are good, they teach us to learn a lot of things and be more. humble, “reflected Canelo, who last November became the first Latin American boxer to achieve the status of overall champion in a division.

Thanks to this victory (with 116-112, 115-113 and 115-113), the second in a row against Golovkin after the draw in the first race between the two, he continues to be the 168-pound monarch of the International Boxing Federation, the World Boxing Council, the World Boxing Association and the World Boxing Organization.

Canelo didn’t need massive punches to turn the fight in his favor. Guadalajaran, while trailing a hand injury, was enough to show more ambition than a shy rival, who was far from becoming a threat to Álvarez and who only reacted in the last part of the fight.

The background between Canelo Álvarez and Golovkin

On September 16, 2017, on the same stage as tonight, the fight ended in a draw, despite most of the specialists having seen the Kazakh, then lord and middleweight master, win.

Then, on September 15, 2018, also at the T-Mobile Arena, the cards decided the fight again. A majority and much-discussed decision gave the Mexican victory and the 160-pound belts of the World Boxing Association and the World Boxing Council. Additionally, GGG lost his 12 unbeaten years and 39 fights.

Their paths have since diverged, but they have never diverged, like the lanes of a highway. Until this morning, always in the city of sin, the cradle of the great boxing events.

After the triumph against the Kazakh, Álvarez, already established as the highest-grossing figure in the boxing world, set out on the hunt for new challenges in the higher categories. He won a light heavyweight title, that of the World Boxing Organization, against veteran and exhausted Russian Sergey Kovalev, only to fall and overwhelm the super middleweight division, of which he is still the undisputed champion.

However, when he tried to climb up to 175lbs in May of this year, he got a lesson from Russian Dmitry Bivol. It was the second setback of his career (in which he recorded 57 wins and 2 draws) and the first since Floyd Mayweather beat him in September 2013.

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